Herat’s governor’s office announced that areas of neighboring districts that had been flattened by previous earthquakes were recording “huge losses”
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan’s western Herat province today, prompting authorities to redeploy aid and rescue teams already in the field following a series of deadly quakes on Saturday.
There is no information yet on the casualties caused by the new earthquake, disaster agency spokesman Janan Sayik told Reuters. Saturday’s earthquakes killed at least 2,400 people, the Taliban government said, and are among the world’s deadliest so far this year.
A statement was issued by the Herat governor’s office saying that some areas, adjacent to districts that had been leveled by previous earthquakes, recorded “huge losses”.
More than 2,000 people were injured when multiple earthquakes leveled thousands of homes northwest of the city of Herat a few days earlier.
“Mobile medical teams and officials are working together to transport injured people to the hospital,” the governor’s office said.
The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) announced that the latest earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 and occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers.
Afghanistan has a history of strong earthquakes, many of which occur in the Hindu Kush region that borders Pakistan.
Relief and rescue efforts after Saturday’s earthquakes have been hampered by crumbling infrastructure after decades of war and the absence of foreign aid that was once the backbone of the Afghan economy but has dried up since the Taliban seized power.
Afghanistan’s health system, which relies heavily on foreign aid, is also facing cuts and many problems.
Source :Skai
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